Improved wagon-axle



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Wagon-Axle Lub ricator. No. 82,068. T Patented Sept. 15, 1868.

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Letters Patent No. 82,068, dated September 15, 1868.

IMPROVED WAGON -AXLE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, G. G. BACHELDER, of Camden, in the county of Knox, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagon-Axles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the some, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved means for lubricating wagon axles.

It consists in providing an oil-recess in the body of the journal of the axle, and a sleeve which is put on over the axle oil-tight, to confine the oil in the recess, having a slot communicating with the recess in the axle, through which the oil is fed by a, wick to the wearing parts.

Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of my improvement.

Figure 2 represents a. horizontal section of the sleeve, and a plan of the journal.

Similurletters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents thejournal, having a longitudinal recess, 6, which is divided into two parts by the rib c, which also has a recess, d, for the wick, through the walls of which, near the bottom, there are holes, e, communicating with the recess 6, for the admission of oil to the wick f, in the recess d.

g' represents a; metallic cap fitted to the journal, and provided with leather or other suitable packing-rings, it, to prevent the oil from escaping at the ends. I

It is also provided with a. slotcoinciding with the slot (1, through which the wick is designed to convey the oil to the box; i

The oil being supplied to the chamber 6, when the wheel is removed, will be retained therein and fed tovthe wearing parts by the wick only when the wheels are in motion, thereby constituting a self-feeding apparatus of very simple construction, which will be very reliable and economical in operation,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with an axle provided with an oil-recess, b, of the cap g, arranged oil-tight therein, and provided with a slot for the wick, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The recess 6, provided with the dividing-rib having a recess, d, for the wick, communicating with the recess 6 by the holes e, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of myinvention signed by me, this 20th day of July, 1868.

. G. G. BACHELDER Witnesses:

HIRAM Bess, H. 0. MILLS. 

